This collection is based on a lesson in Bruce Lesh's "Why Won't You Just Tell Us the Answer?" and on a Smithsonian National Museum of American History lesson (both cited fully below). In this lesson, students will evaluate primary source material in order to develop an appropriate name for the site of the 1876 battle at Little Bighorn River. This collection allows students to explore the following questions:
- Why do different interpretations of history develop? How do they change over time?
- When thinking about conflicts in history, whose perspectives are valued and remembered?
tags: Custer, Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, Little Big Horn, continuity, change over time, perspective, historiography, point of view, Native American, indigenous…
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- February 17, 2017
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This collection is based on a lesson in Bruce Lesh's "Why Won't You Just Tell Us the Answer?" and on a Smithsonian National Museum of American History lesson (both cited fully below). In this lesson, students will evaluate primary source material in order to develop an appropriate name for the site of the 1876 battle at Little Bighorn River. This collection allows students to explore the following questions:
- Why do different interpretations of history develop? How do they change over time?
- When thinking about conflicts in history, whose perspectives are valued and remembered?
tags: Custer, Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, Little Big Horn, continuity, change over time, perspective, historiography, point of view, Native American, indigenous, American Indian, Sioux, Greasy Grass
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Lesh, Bruce. "Why Won't You Just Tell Us the Answer?" Stenhouse Publishers, 2011, 115-135.
Smithsonian National Museum of American History. "Lesson 5: Two Perspectives on the Battle of Little Bighorn/Greasy Grass." http://amhistory.si.edu/militaryhistory/resources/Lesson5.pdf.
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